One of the
downsides to working in a newsroom is that you hear a lot of bad news. Things
tend to make the news when something goes wrong more often than when everything
is humming along just fine, right?

But most of the
time in most places, things are humming along just fine. That's true in
Corporate America as much as it is in our personal lives.

As of last week,
116 companies had agreed to have their employees surveyed for Top Workplaces 2014.
The process for many of those companies started with an employee nomination.
So, to make sure there's time for all interested companies in the region to get
a shot, we're extending the nomination deadline to April 25.

Starting
with that list of nominations and then reaching out to other employers,
WorkplaceDynamics will conduct its surveys through July. Then they'll start
calculating the results and we'll start working on our coverage plans.

The process
is open to businesses in the region with at least 35 employees. (Any fewer, and
WorkplaceDynamics doesn't have enough to get a valid survey sample.) We're
looking for organizations of all types, for-profit and nonprofit, from Silicon
Forest to southern Oregon, from retailers to manufacturers to hospitals. And we
want to know what business traits you think generate satisfaction and success.

Make
nominations and tell us about your employer at oregonlive.com/nominate. Or call 503-427-1666 for more
details or to make a nomination that way.

Feel free to email me if you have questions about how it all
works. And then send in those happy stories.